My books (which do not know that I exist) are as much a part of me as this visage, with its grey hair at the temples and grey eyes that look for vanity in glass surfaces and wonderingly run my curved hand over. And not without some logical bitterness it occurs to me that the essential words that most express me are not in my own writings, but in these books that don’t know who I am. Better that way. The voices of the dead will utter me forever.
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Roberto Balaño
Poetry“…Mi alma encontró
a mi corazón. Destrozado, pero vivo,
sucio, mal vestido y lleno de amor.”“My soul found my heart. Shattered, but alive, dirty, poorly dressed and filled with love.”
“Sucio Mal Vestido” – The Romantic Dogs
Pablo Neruda
PoetryThe moon lives in the lining of your skin.
– Pablo Neruda
LiteratureLos pájaros nocturnos picotean las primeras estrellas que centellean como mi alma cuando te amo.
The birds of the night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
VII – Inclinado En Las Tardes (Leaning Into The Afternoons)